Editor’s note: Over the course of this week, in celebration of Epiphany, we will be publishing a series of poems by Bishop Graham Kings, originally included in Andrew Wheeler’s Desire of Nations: The Magi, their Journey and the Child (2015).
Terror unleashed
Outwitted, outmanoeuvred,
Herod unleashes terror.
Revenge, outraged, ventures out,
Unresisted, unrestrained.
Many are slaughtered to slay the One:
The One survives to save the many.
Bishop Graham Kings‘s other post may be found here. The featured image is a 16th century stained glass at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Graham Kings, in his retirement in Cambridge, is honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Ely and research associate at the the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, which he founded in 1995. He has served as Mission Theologian in the Anglican Communion; Bishop of Sherborne; and vicar of St. Mary’s Church, Islington, London, where he co-founded Fulcrum.
